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Gleneagles Dialogue in Monterrey: Views from Civil Society

By Jennifer Morgan

Recommendations

The Gleneagles Dialogue should promote and launch a highly ambitious set of programmes and initiatives to rapidly increase investment in energy efficiency, renewable energy and clean energy options. These should include agreement on:

Mandatory standards to increase energy efficiency across the board in all relevant sectors;

Accelerated R&D to increase investment and technology options, including the deployment of concentrated solar and integrated pilot plants on carbon capture and storage;

A global renewable energy target aimed at diversifying supply, providing energy services to the poor and reducing climate impacts;

Robust technology roadmaps capable of accelerating large-scale deployment of new technologies, in close cooperation with the +5 countries where investment in energy infrastructure is growing fastest. Any perceived barriers to such cooperation caused by fears over access to intellectual property rights should be addressed as a matter of urgency.

Further, the Gleneagles Dialogue should encourage the development of coherent, integrated strategies addressing all the climate and energy priority issues in a complementary way. By bringing together all of the challenges and opportunities we face in a ‘2 degrees energy strategy’, governments would provide strategic direction for the future that avoids the worst climate impacts, tackles local pollution and provides a solid level of security of energy supply for countries around the world.

The Gleneagles Dialogue should support:

A Global Adaptation Strategy, including a range of financing instruments, support for technology transfer strategies and insurance-related instruments and the integration of disaster management and international relief community expertise;

National policy certainty through a deepening and broadening of the existing international protocol, the Kyoto Protocol, and early agreement, certainly no later than 2008, of the post 2012
framework, providing clear positive signals to the carbon markets;

Access to energy for the poor, particularly in least developed countries (LDCs), and the strengthening of regional, national and local institutional capacity;

A prudent carbon risk management strategy targeting concentration levels at 400 – 450 ppmv CO2eq, associated with a 2 degree rise;

Parallel and simultaneous action in adaptation and mitigation strategies;

The integration of climate change strategies within the design and implementation of development initiatives at regional, national and local level.